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Moby
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Go - The Very Best Of Moby
V2 Records
Release: 10/24/2006
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Rated:
Review by:
Jonathan Shipley
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Moby's cool. First of all, he's a geek. Geeks are cool. At least I hope
they are or else I'm very much in trouble. Second, he's bald (like
me), literate (like me) and one of the most influential musicians of
this new century (like me, err, well, no, not like me unless you
count my musical wizardry of playing "Greensleeves" on my
mother-in-law's organ).
You don't know Moby? You haven't heard his music? Oh, I'm sure
you have. A few years ago a little album called Play
came out. He sold oodles of songs from that album for
commercials and movie soundtracks. You might have bought a
Chevrolet or a pair of sneakers partly because of Moby's music.
And Play is very much represented in Go - The
Very Best of Moby, as well as his other popular albums,
including Everything is Wrong, 18 and
the unheralded marvel that is Hotel, as well as other
neat tunes (his "New York, New York" features the vocal stylings of
Debbie Harry).
So what of the album itself? Pretty awesome if you like Moby
and/or innovative dance-able techno music that could just as easily
cater to high school students as middle-aged folks with a streak of
childhood left in them. "Porcelain," "South Side," "Lift Me Up" and
many more songs complete the 2-CD set. You get remixes, too!
What I wish would be more of his quiet, vocal-less tunes on the
album, the ones that are emotive and beautiful. Hear some of the
later tracks of Play and much of Hotel to
know the kinds of songs I'm referring to. It's evocative stuff, and
just as important to the Moby catalogue as "Why Does My Heart
Feel So Bad?" and "Honey." Perhaps that'll come on another greatest
hits album.
Until then, Moby, keep being geeky and great and if you want to
sample some of my organ music give me a call. |
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